Tag: Airships
Zeppelin over the Saladin Citadel, 1931
Airborne Zeppelin Airfield, 1925
Solar Powered Aerial Landing Field, 1934
Modern Mechanix, October, 1934. Art by Norman Saunders
Meet Me at the Pole, 1931
The original plan, envisioned by explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins and financed by the Hearst press organization, would have been a rendezvous between the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin and Wilkins’ Nautilus (which was a surplus submarine obtained from the U.S. Navy). Unfortunately mechanical difficulties prevented the vessel from participating in the expedition.